Submitted by Alden Blackman

Boulders dumped in a water course at Clarke’s Road by ex-Pat Pat Brayshaw

Why would Grenville Phillips, a Qualified Engineer contradicts a facts as to the Dangerous situation posed by a Watercourse in Clarke’s Road St. James?

I received a message from Mr Phillips Monday – he stated, “I am aware of the situation, and investigated the problem. The main problem is that someone constructed a masonry wall inside of the drainage channel. The Town planner and Drainage Department are aware. Why are you not shining the light on the principal problem”.

What is beyond dispute is that the wall was constructed in the drainage course, if the wall is removed from the drainage course, the problem should be solved. Relocating that wall is the obvious first step.

Alden: when solving a problem you should address the main problem before any possible secondary problem.

As I have repeatedly stated Town Planning and Drainage have determined that the wall is the source of the drainage problem.

In Mr. Phillips investigation he refused to acknowledged the boulders wall sitting on the floor of the original watercourse with dislodged boulders into what he thinks is the original course is some of the course. Part of the course is under the boulders.

There no need for me to repeat myself but…Did Mr. Phillips: the enginee know of the watercourse before it was altered?

Mr. Phillips: did not see that the course canal from the end of the wall, about 75 ft to where the water emerged is flattened due to heavy equipment removing the sides in crossing the canal?

Mr. Phillips: failed to see the flattened road across the course canal on which vehicles traversed, above the wall.

Mr. Phillips: do you know that Drainage Unit Officers saw that watercourse encroachment in 2003 when no wall was erected ?

All Mr. Phillips: saw as the “MAIN PROBLEM” is a Black man protection wall, erected 5+ft from his land mark, 7+ years after enduring the yearly flood damaged.

It seems Mr. Phillips: as an engineer is now telling Town Planning and Drainage, move the Black man protection wall let his home wash away.

One of the things the E-Platform will deliver when it is established is to feature social issues which have no champion.

For example this matter of Bajan Resident Alden Blackman who, for 17 years, has been flooded out of his home by the non Bajan expatriate who built a dam above his property.

Even though this dam floods out residents in Mr. Blackman’s neighbourhood, 4 successive governments have been begged but have refused to assist these residents.

One of the platform’s strategies to bring awareness to his/their plight would be to print 25 T Shirts.

This would be as part of an awareness campaign that would then have said residents OR ANY SYPATHIZER (of who de ole man knows ManyPussy would be one) walk in Bridgetown, Oistins and Holetown.

Specifically during days when tourist cruise vessels visit Barbados and use that opportunity to air this injustice

Not a feller doan need no permission to march CAUSE WUNNA WOULD NOT BE MARCHING

All wunna would be doing is walking about with the tourises dem from de port all de way up broadstreet in and among tourisesessss

Alden Blackman YOU CONTINUE TO PLAY WITH THESE GOVERNMENTS MINISTERS

THe only thing these bastards understand is being embarassed and therefore what you and other bajans need to do is to silently and peacefull dissent in LOUD VOICES which is an impossibility to be sure BUT DE OLE MAN TELLS YOU THAT, AFTER @ MONTHS DEM GOING FIX YOUR ISSUE.

Stop writing and take action!!! but then again you is a bajan and we does like talking nuff

Grenville Phillips: the flooding problems at that watercourse started with a greedy British White lady. who was determined to get all of her land to used.She encroached into that watercourse and retrieved 4+ft, and formed a yard-cum-private road up from the course original floor course along the middle and across the course. no wall was above Blackman home it was wide open that when the flooding started to eroded Blackman’s adjacent lot making it look like the watercourse. Had the Officers of MTW/Drainage Unit done what was RIGHT in 2003 and not showed indifference and unfairness to Blackman’s plight, plus a blatantly discriminatory action of MTW paving that said road of white lady, that caused the damaged. We would not be here doing this.

Your own WRITTEN words and response prove you are a very deceptive individual.

watchman March 2, 2019 3:22 PM

Please. The question must be ask is, why did Grenville Phillips message Alden Blackman,? was he working for Government, or Pat Brayshaw, let Grenville answer that.

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Next 246 March 2, 2019 8:41 PM Grenville Philips

For the record.

Mr Blackman sent me a confidential private message on my personal Facebook page requesting that I assist him anyway that I can.
I am not a ‘hired gun’. If you want my professional advice, whether paid or pro bono publico, then I will provide my best advice, whether it is favourable to the one who requested or not.
I provided him with my best advice, which he was unwilling to accept. That is entirely his choice. My responsibility is not to coerce anyone to accept my advice, it is simply to give it.

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watchman March 2, 2019 10:05 PM

@ Mr. Phillips

Alden Blackmam and I were sending out many requests to people who we thought can and would help, using Blackman Facebook, if you did get an invite

Grenville Phillips: your take on that watercourse is wrong, it was was altered in late 2002. Blackman lived on the same spot for 37years. A house was above Blackman home and no flooding came to Clarke’s Road. the house moved years ago, and no flooding. The course flood flow capacity was cut by half with the built up boulders private road obstruction, that caused the flood flows to rise higher in what left on the course, plus the flattened road across the course of what used to be a canal, no define canal from where the flood flows emerges, so it spreads caused erosion to Blackman’s back yard, back and front door.

you are late to the party but, tell me is a road along and across the watercourse . Have you ever stuff envelopes from a mailing list. and Blackman do not lived next to the white lady , as I said you are late, I will putt you right y tomorrow.

I also used to speak to two Guyanese sisters who were renting in a house between Mr. Blackman’s property and the white woman.

Don’t know how someone can confuse between with next.

I am also not late to the party as you alleged I have read many comments by you posted on BU for a long time.

I responded because you were caught in outright misleading readers on BU including myself and you have made this issue a black vs white whilst trying to tear down the reputation of another black Bajan who you initially contacted for his opinion as an engineering professional.

However since the Black Bajan engineer professional when initially contacted did not play by your script you tried to malign him on Social media.

I mean Vladimir Putin has invaded two sovereign nations to date and will extend that soon yet it has yet to elicit the “…whites can be their own worst enemy…”

Pol Pot, a Dictator in Cambodia, much like Mugabe is one here in Barbados, murdered 6 million? Of his fellow Cambodians yet, de ole man would hazard to say that his actions were in no way different from those of any other race where humans are unkind to other people

Yet this public response to Grenville Phillips de very man dat Peter Lawrence Thompson called a liar because Grenville has fabricated a panacea for the Barbadian economy, now has caused you to say quite derogatorily…

“…Blacks can be their worst enemies…”

I find this statement to be disturbing

Imagine that coming from the very man talking bout “waste foopism” heheheheh

PDYR you need to be the last one to make comment on Blacks being their own worst enemy
Did you not say it was your efforts that put Mia in govt an effort which is causing the people much pain and suffering

First you had Mr Symmonds telling MR Blackman, he need to kiss-up and make nice in order to have his matter addressed. Now we have some fool talking about pleasant personalities.
“I have spoken to Alden Blackman many times and he is not the pleasant personality you put forward.” ….and
“I have also spoken several times to the white woman owner of the property who always seemed pleasant.”

One party “living large and in charge” and the next party praying every time it looks as if it will rain and wash his house away.
I suspect the possibility of being washed away y would make many a man lose his smile.

“I also used to speak to two Guyanese sisters who were renting in a house between Mr. Blackman’s property and the white woman.”
And …………..

I spoke to my son and wife this morning. I also used top speak to my ex-wife but I don’t think it adds anything to the cost of tea in China..

This is dedicated to my brother is solidarity “piece” and other keyboard wariors…

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or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man
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who errs and comes short again and again;
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Good Morning , Watchman and Alden Blackman on BU, seems the same. who or what is Barbados 2019 ? How do you know “Mexparty246”, is Grenville Phillips?.

From day 1 back in late 2002 this issue is about, what a British Ex-pat WHITE woman was allowed to do to a Black Barbadian, name Alden Blackman. as to misleading readers on BU about Grenville Phillips, Blackman and I were sending out invites.( one went to the PM of Barbados). if He did get an invite, we thank him for the very fast response, in a few hours Mr. Phillips investigated and solved the “MAIN PROBLEM” that caused the flooding.

As for Black can be their worst enemies speak to yourself, by disobeying the sign that say NO THROUGH TRAFFICKED you used the “said private road” across the course, over the years, and help with destroying the watercourse, right above a Black man home. Barbados 2019 can that be an issue?

last week, appeals also went to White Barbadians . yesterday one white Barbadian offered to send a load of boulders for Blackman. he said to Blackman put these beside the boulders in the course. let MTW moved all.

Always about altering a watercourse to please a British white Woman. and blatantly neglecting the SAFETY of a Black man and his home. watchman and I will not give up, never stop repeating, that the action of the MTW/Drainage Unit Officers, Showed indifference, unfairness, and discriminatory to Alden Blackman because he is a Black man,who from 2003 to date. was made to endured a dangerous situation created by a British white woman. The inaction of representatives for St. James Central. MP Symmonds and Former MP Hutson is seems as pandering to the British white woman.

@watchman
I knew it was about altering the watercourse. I did not for one moment think it was about who had a “pleasant personality”. After all, if I went to Grenada and ‘took advantage’ of a true Grenadian then I would be the most ‘pleasant’ person in all of Grenada.

Trinidadians have the expression “All skin teeth not grin teeth”. Time we in Barbados learn that smiles often do not mean what we think they do.

Can you imagine what Barbados 2019 would post if he/she got a ‘likkle’ food or a shot of rum from the woman and/or Grenville .

The point is you and Alden Blackman choose to mislead and seeking to pull Grenville Philips into this debacle and when not in agreement attempted to taint the man’s name by accusing him of siding or representing the white woman or Government.

You two are so pathetic you have ALSO tried to make this a racial issue to elicit support.

Grenville Philips has given his professional opinion FIRST solicited by you and Alden Blackman you can like it or lump it and stop your backward behavior in trying to impugn on his professional Engineering expertise.

Simple Simon
This morning ,I visited the site where Carew lived in his simple wooden bungalow styled home.Its now a congestion of beached fishing boats and other disorganized refuse.You said the spot where Carew lived is now a 2 storey property…You don’t know where Carew lived or you are just a mixed up stranger to the truth.In other words you lie.

Grenville Phillips professional opinion is wrong. This is a racial issue. pathetic comes from enduring 15+ years of redirected flooding. Wait until you have something to lose, keep destroying the watercourse, to save Gas.

Simple Simon
This morning ,I visited the site where Carew lived in his simple wooden bungalow styled home.Its now a congestion of beached fishing boats and other disorganized refuse.You said the spot where Carew lived is now a 2 storey property…You don’t know where Carew lived or you are just a mixed up stranger to the truth.In other words you lie.
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Simple Simon is a proven liar without a shred of credibility.

She claimed to be at cricket during the Australia Test Match and also lied about the bottles being thrown at Kensington Oval re the Sherwin Campbell incident later EXPOSED by a Video posted by Donna.

Comes on BU daily with numerous bullshit posts and definitely a notorious bold faced OLD liar.

@Barbados 2019 March 3, 2019 5:28 PM “She claimed to be at cricket during the Australia Test Match and also lied about the bottles being thrown at Kensington Oval re the Sherwin Campbell incident later EXPOSED by a Video posted by Donna.”

I was at Kensington. In the Kensington stand. I saw chicken bones and macaroni pie being thrown. I did not see bottles. I did not take video of the incident. Since Donna has video of the event, the video may well have recorded something that I did not see from my vantage point in the Kensington stand.

The video camera may well have recorded something that I did not see.

It is impossible for anybody at Kengsington at the time to see everything, from every angle.

I know what I saw with my own eyes. I did not see bottles being thrown.

Hi David, This is upstream where the floods flow emerges. It once had a natural canal about 4+ft wide, and knee deep. Grenville Phillips said this is erosion. No, the edges we’re removed by heavy equipment. A Mr.Clarke said if the white woman can he too can. That was done years after the flooding started. Had MTW/Drainage unit enforced the law in 2003 when the first encroachment happened, and restored the watercourse, this would not have happened. Below is the private road flattened, by the likes of a Barbados 2019, who traverse the private road causing more erosion. Grenville Phillips said remove the wall overlooking the fact that the wall is the only protection between floods flow and Alden Blackman home – Alden Blackman

I saw the Video posted by Donna of the number of bottles thrown on the field during that match it was hundreds if not more. It would have been impossible for anyone at Kensington Oval watching the cricket that day not to have observed.

It is obvious that Simple Simon is no simpleton but a deceitful liar which means nothing coming from the individual can be believed and best taken with a grain of salt.

Ok. You could not have travelled that way before late 2002, in 2003 it was a yard, then a road. For you to travelled that private road along and across the watercourse, as the picture showed. it will have to be NOV-DEC 2018 after that house was painted. The plants to the left of the well, were planted “into what used to be the watercourse ” after November 2016 flooding in Clarke’s Road. That house started to build in March 2010. The usage of Heavy equipment further destroyed that watercourse. because MTW/Drainage Unit allowed it to be done. This idiot, and Blackman is trying to save a Blackman home.

You travelled on that private road, and help caused erosion. you only stop using the road, when you lost the PIMPING pick. you do love Ex-pats.

You are making ridiculous statements, attributing them to me, and then posting photos to challenge your own statements.

I wrote the following:

“a) A wall has been constructed in the middle of a drainage course. This is not an allowed practise, and is the principal cause of any flooding upstream and erosion downstream.”

Why are you persisting with the idea of erosion upstream?

For education, when a wall is constructed in the middle of a drainage course, it reduces the space in which the water flows – it becomes a narrower channel. This can cause backing up of water (flooding) at the start of the narrow channel (upstream), and erosion at the end of the channel (downstream).

The erosion happens because water on the same slope speeds up in narrow channels. Faster flowing water can erode what slower moving water does not.

If Greenville had seen the big A.ss boulders as reason for the problem he would have stated that in his comment
Furthermore this problem have seen the eyes if many professionals and the boulders were not asked to be removed by none of them .
But No ! Mr. Holy Ghost in his knowning all self wakes up to rain brimstone and fire on Grenville head
Get thee behind me Satan

Yuh cuss any and everbody that dare to refute your medical opinion Now you have the nerve to attack a professional engineer on his assessment
You got to Be a friggin hypocrtical Ra….ss…ho..le
F u. .k off numb skull

Watchman as suggested by some ask Mia for her professional opinion
By the way it only took her eight months to blow up the social enviroment of this country
Maybe she can use her expertise to blow up the boulders that u say is causing the problem

Grenville should state, if he did go to the watercourse site, and who he was working for. Grenville got a message not intended for him, but in a few hours he could reply to Blackman, trying to intimidating Blackman on the 25Feb 2019 he reply stating “I am aware of the situation and investigated the main problem is that someone constructed a masonry wall inside of the drainage channel, the Town Planner and Drainage Department are aware . why are you not shining the light on the principal problem”.

26 Feb 2019 Grenville stated “relocating that wall is obvious first step in solving the problem. Again why are you not shining a light on that main obvious problem.

27Feb 2019 Grenville stated As I have repeatedly Town Planning and Drainage Department have determined that the wall is the source of the drainage problem.

Grenville keep overlooking (if he did visited the site ) the plain facts are, Blackman lived on that spot from 1982 that original course never overflowed. in 2002 the white woman got a path cut across the course,(a road) that caused the first flooding.

The boulders wall yard-cum-road was placed out, up into ,and along the course to the middle in that part of the course to meet the cut path road.

The white woman built a private road on her side, partly from within the watercourse, caused narrowing and redirecting floods flow that eroded the rocky muddy edge on Blackman’s side and form what appears like a course.

The up stream from the road across the course is now flattened, as a garden. The downstream original path is blocked by the boulders.

The watercourse was altered and destroyed in 2002, by British Ex-pat white woman.

What you are telling me “For Education” was done in 2002 when the boulders / road was built in the middle of the course, but it did not caused a backup. The floods flow reaches the altered cut across flattened road and spread full force, redirected by the boulders wall and covered over Blackman’s lot, already made low line by the built up of boulders along the middle of said course on the White Woman side. and eroded the whole back yard.

The upstream from that across road was further damaged by heavy equipment, not erosion. what would you say is the main problem again?

Did not Lionel Weekes former PS and the late Keith ‘Jolla’ Barrow both attached to the Drainage Unit in the last DLP administration and both being card carrying members of the Fatted Calf brigade,did not these two visit the site and made pronouncements/recommendations for relief?Weekes should be very familiar with the area I am told he has or had personal connections in the district.

Gp@10.29am Mar 07
I recall the DLP won 2 boxes only in St John,of a total of 314 boxes islandwide.That, in bajan parlance is what you call cut ass.Speak of an electorate that was pissed off?That was it!Curtains on that party of low life crooks and lying impostors.#nevertoriseagain.

None of wunna have the professional expertise to prove or to say that Grenville findings are wrong
All wunna can do is become Monday morning quarterbacks sifting through the smoke and mirror unproven findings of watchman

I am yet to hear from watchman or him bringing to table an opinion from the any technical experts who would have agreed with him that the boulders are cause for the flooding
Now if he has such information in his possession he should have placed it on the table as proof that Grenville opinion is flawed
For the many years Watchman has been steadfast in his beliving that the boulders are the problem never once has he submitted evidence by a professional to agree with him
All he has said is subject to conjecture and what he thinks to be the problem

Yes , both PS Lionel Weeks, the then Director of Drainage Keith Barrow and Officer Mr. Dawe did visit the watercourse. in late 2010, Blackman, some friends, and I were building a short wall , Blackman explained to PS. Mr.Weeks and Mr. Barrow . PS Weeks said ok Mr.Blackman we will get back to you. The point is they came for Blackman, but saw where the Boulders were, the flattened road across the course, and the flattened upstream channel above Blackman open eroded back yard, that was partly chain link fence.

So Grenville said that fast pace ofthe water flowing from the water course is slowed down giving cause to a settlement / back up force because of the wall
Look i gone my advice to you is to keep spinning top in mud
PDYR has a ton of stupid posters which we would like to flood via public domain maybe he can use your wall to post them for advertisement

Grenville: is partly right about what happened at that watercourse, but he is wrong about what caused it to happened, and the “MAIN PROBLEM” The course never overflowed, until late 2002 when the edges were cut to make a path/road across the course. The space the boulders were placed on was the middle within the course, up and along the course to meet the road across the course, the course was narrowed at that stage. and did, what Grenville said it will do, that is,” redirect and erode the rocky muddy edge opposite , and made it appeared as the course. Grenville: no wall was erected then, the course was between a boulders wall, and a rocky muddy watercourse edged. Grenville: what is the main problem

“For the many years Watchman has been steadfast in his beliving that the boulders are the problem never once has he submitted evidence by a professional to agree with him
All he has said is subject to conjecture and what he thinks to be the problem”

So you live in a place for donkey years and was never flooded. A new guy comes and rearranges the terrain and afterwards you get flooded out each year> Are you telling me that you have to wait on someone from UWI to tell confirm that your ‘conjecture’ was correct… “the change of landscape caused the flooding”.?

What if the guy from UWI is not thorough? He comes and look at the wall that you have to stop yourself from floating out to the sea and tells you that your wall is the problem.

💔Mariposa 💔
My dear Mariposa, you have broken my heart and it seems as if we must have a sad parting.

For a time, I appreciated how you raised the level of your game and directed some deadly arrows towards the hearts of your opponents. I was completely enthralled; But lately you have taken on too many side issues and has spread yourself too thin.

The pace and accuracy of your barbs to your two favorite guys is diminished and you are now lobbing ‘jobby’ into the lobby.

Please regain your focus, find your lost teammate T.Inniss and launch more directed attacks. You have lost your effectiveness as members of your opposition have now gone on vacation.

Rolling my eyes so funny. Man yuh got me falling down wud laughter
Got to hand it to u doah yuh got a weird sense of humuor
Bush Tea would like dat one
Seriously where is the Bush mister yuh think Charles jong got hold if his Windows
Bush Tea come out and shared the laughter

The wall must be demolish first, are the words coming over the wall,from certain quarters. That Black man and a watchman gone beyond the normal agitating point, and got we looking bad, when we only overlooked the risk 15+years fly fast. The MAIN PROBLEM must be that wall built in 2010 caused the flooding to the Black man from 2002.Remember WHITE 1S RIGHT, BLACK STAND BACK.

In 390 years since the founding of the country Barbados,successive governments incurred public debt of $7 billion.
It took the DLP Fatted Calf crowd of misfits and plunderers of the privy purse led by one FJ Stuart ably assisted by one C Sinckler and one D Worrell of Central Bank infamy only 10 years to rack up,shamelessly,an additional $8 billion and have nothing to show for that monstrous further debt.
Why should they not be made to account for that disastrous performance.Being voted out was the first signal the electorate sent to the new administration.The gravity of the defeat suggests the time is now for any benefits any of them derived from that tainted performance be subjected to rigorous review to the point of denying them any consequential pecuniary benefit in law and further,that they never be permitted to serve in any public office ever again.

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